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    I BIANCA MIIiESI MOJO:N\ 17

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    among tlie first physicians there . He was so distinguished at Paviawhere lie finished his medical studies , that he was sent in

    1802 , ( being then only eighteen ) into the medical service of the French army . Napoleon saw him administering to the wounded

    at Marengo , and remarked him . Three years afterwards he met him in a drawing-room in Paris : _"Ah ! " he exclaimed , _" here is

    my little Marengo doctor . " Afterwards , and when Dr . Mojon had . made great advances in his professional accomplishments and

    reputation , Napoleon appointed him successively Professor of Anatomy and Physiology , First Physician of the military hospital , and

    _Physician of the Imperial Count . The opinions of Dr . Mojon coincided on every point with Bianca ' s .

    Attached like her to the philosophy of the eighteenth century , desirous of progressinimical to Austrian domination , he possessed also

    a reputation for science , and goodness which could hardly fail to attract such a woman . A warm attachment soon arose between

    them , and her correspondence with M . Mojon , and the hope of their approaching unionmade exile more than tolerable to Bianca . She

    soon found another , source of consolation , in the society of the eminent historian Sismondi , and became his intimate friend as well as

    his ardent disciple . Her love and veneration for him went on increasing to the end of

    his life ; an attachment well deserved by the wisdom and the encouragement he imparted to her ; Madame Sismondi also became her

    most tender and devoted friend , and a constant correspondence was maintained between them after their separation , in which Sismondi

    took part . Bianca now decided on travelling through France , BelgiumEngland and Hollandwith a female friend . She

    kept a very , minute journal , in which , we find every date and item of expense carefully set down , no complaints of discomfort by the

    way , ( exemplary abstinence !) and particular notices of everything which may promote- the w ell-being of the species or the individual .

    In France she went to visit the old Due de Bourbon , at Chantilly ; and we find in her journal the following anecdote of the old regime :

    " The Due de Bourbon told me to-day , that when he was thirteen years old he was permitted to pass some days with the other princes

    at the court of Versailles ( this was in 1766 , in the lifetime of Louis XV . ) . His father , on this occasion , gave him a purse containing 100

    louis d ' or . The young prince , for the first time master of such a treasurewas very proudand very eager to display it to the princesses ,

    and , every evening he , counted it out before their eyes . One morning he found the number of pieces diminished . The next there were still more

    missing . He » suspected that some servant about the court entered his room at night and robbed him while sleeping . Wishing to

    assure himself of the fact , he remained awake , and watching by the feeble light of his night-lamp , he perceived his old footman , ( valet

    de pied , ' ) whose probity was renowned , glide into the room , and with stealthy step approach the head of his bed , where he had placed his

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/17/